Illustrated Architecture Dictionary ............... Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary
Architecture:
1 - A decorative strip
used for ornamentation or finishing
2 - A decorative contour, in stone or wood
A plane or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration,
often in groups, by means of the lights and shades upon the surface
Shaped edge of a lid, cornice,
etc.
Examples:
- Bead-and-reel
- Cavetto molding
- Chair rail molding: Horizontal molding placed part
way up a wall to protect the surface from chair-backs, and used simply as decoration
- Cove molding or Coving: a concave-profile molding
that is used at the junction of an interior wall and ceiling
- Crown molding
- Cyma: molding of double curvature, combining the
convex ovolo and concave cavetto. When the concave part is uppermost, it is called
a cyma recta but if the convex portion
is at the top, it is called a cyma reversa,
- Dentils
- Drip cap
- Egg-and-dart
- Godroon
or Gadroon
- Hoodmold
- Label molding
- Ovolo
- Picture rail: Functional molding installed 7-9 feet
above the floor from which framed pictures and paintings are hung using picture wire
and picture rail hooks.
- Roll molding: any convex, rounded molding, which
has (wholly or in part) a cylindrical form
- Rope molding
- Running molding
- Scoop pattern
Chamfer: Beveled edge connecting two surfaces
